The best Cyril Smith’s thriller movies

Cyril Smith

Cyril Smith

04/04/1892- 05/03/1963
We present our ranking of the best Cyril Smith’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Cyril Smith.

They Made Me a Fugitive

They Made Me a Fugitive
7.2/10
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.

Stolen Face

Stolen Face
6/10
A doctor changes a woman's face to match the one that broke his heart. Trouble starts when his love returns.

Daughter of Darkness

Daughter of Darkness
6.7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 21/01/1948
  • Character: Joe
In Ballyconnen, Emmy Baudine (Siobhan McKenna) is a beautiful but disturbed young woman who works for the local priest. When the carnival comes to town, she encounters a handsome young boxer called Dan (Maxwell Reed) and lays his face open with her fingernails when he expects sexual favours from her. Hurriedly packed off by Father Corcoran (Liam Redmond) to Yorkshire, Emmy is taken in by a farming family and manages to suppress the strange feelings of fascination and repulsion that she experiences in the presence of the opposite sex. Until, that is, the carnival comes to town and brings with it the vengeful Dan...

The Interrupted Journey

The Interrupted Journey
6.7/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 11/10/1949
  • Character: Publican
When John North, a budding author, pulls the communication cord of a late night train that is taking him away on a weekend with his publishers wife, he sets in motion a series of events that lead to a train crash, a murder and a police man hunt, but all is not what it seems.

Svengali

Svengali
5.5/10
A man hypnotizes a young woman into being an opera singer.

Bulldog Jack

Bulldog Jack
6.1/10
While filling in for injured supersleuth Bulldog Drummond (Atholl Fleming), world-class cricket player Jack Pennington (Jack Hulbert) attempts to foil a criminal mastermind's (Ralph Richardson) impending heist that's targeting a valuable jewel necklace held within the British Museum. This comedic 1930s mystery features daring rescues, intense fistfights and an exciting edge-of-your seat finale aboard a runaway train.

Green Grow the Rushes

Green Grow the Rushes
5.9/10
Efforts to move Britain into the modern age don't sit well with the people of the small village of Anderia Marsh, who have claimed a right (going back to Henry III) to evade government-imposed import duties and taxes. And when the government decides to curb this right, the whole village quietly rises up in a comical rebellion. After their vessel runs aground during a storm and is impounded by the British authorities, local smugglers must find a way of disposing of their contraband brandy cargo before it's discovered by the Customs Officers.

The Black Abbot

The Black Abbot
4.7/10
A gang of crooks uses the legend of a ghost haunting an old dark mansion to help them kidnap a rich man.

Retribution

Retribution
Sheila sees the folly of her ways when husband, John, is to be hanged for murdering her paramour, but once trusty Bill from the CID is on the case, the real killer is soon unmasked

The Third Visitor

The Third Visitor
6.5/10
  • Genre: Thriller
  • Release: 01/01/1951
  • Character: Detective Horton
Suave supercilious Carling (Karel Stepanek) receives several callers to his isolated house, all of whom hold a grudge against him. Next morning a corpse is found, and later identified as his by one of the visitors.

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